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Integrated Pest Management in Fruit Crops
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Integrated Pest Management in Fruit Crops

A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Protection and Biotic Interactions".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 5499

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Kevin Cloonan

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U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Subtropical Horticulture Research Station, Miami, FL 33158, USA
Interests: Insect behavior; plant arthropod interactions; chemical ecology; integrated pest management; arthropod monitoring techniques; tropical agriculture; tropical and subtropical fruits
Dr. Xiangbing Yang

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Guest Editor
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Subtropical Horticulture Research Station, Miami, FL 33158, USA
Interests: Insect behavior; plant arthropod interactions; chemical ecology; integrated pest management; arthropod monitoring techniques; tropical agriculture; tropical and subtropical fruits

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue “Integrated Pest Management in Fruit Crops” welcomes you to submit original research articles and reviews on ecological interactions between organisms and agriculturally related issues. The focus of this Special Issue is to present research that addresses interactions between plants, insects, and mites, and that has led to economically important pest-related issues regarding fruit crop production around the world. Research articles and reviews are welcomed that identify or address current or potential pest-related issues regarding fruit crops. Analytical tools to manage pest-related problems, including, but not limited to, pest detection, occurrence monitoring, trapping techniques, behavioral techniques, electrophysiological techniques, population dynamics, chemical control, biological control, preharvest pest management, postharvest pest management, etc., are especially welcomed research topics.

We sincerely appreciate your consideration of this invitation to contribute to this Special Issue. Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.

Dr. Kevin Cloonan
Dr. Xiangbing Yang
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • insecticide resistance
  • tephritid fruit fly
  • exotic pest species
  • insect pheromones
  • chemical control
  • insect behavior
  • biopesticides
  • parasitoid
  • fumigation treatment
  • integrated pest management

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Compatibility of Entomopathogenic Nematodes with Chemical Insecticides for the Control of Drosophila suzukii (Diptera: Drosophilidae)
by Sérgio da Costa Dias, Andressa Lima de Brida, Maguintontz Cedney Jean-Baptiste, Luís Garrigós Leite, Sergio M. Ovruski, Jana C. Lee and Flávio Roberto Mello Garcia
Plants 2024, 13(5), 632; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13050632 - 25 Feb 2024
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The spotted-wing drosophila, Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura) (Diptera: Drosophilidae), is a pest that reduces the productivity of small fruits. Entomopathogenic nematodes (EPNs) and chemical insecticides can suppress this pest, but the compatibility of the two approaches together requires further examination. This laboratory study evaluated the [...] Read more.
The spotted-wing drosophila, Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura) (Diptera: Drosophilidae), is a pest that reduces the productivity of small fruits. Entomopathogenic nematodes (EPNs) and chemical insecticides can suppress this pest, but the compatibility of the two approaches together requires further examination. This laboratory study evaluated the compatibility of Steinernema brazilense IBCBn 06, S. carpocapsae IBCBn 02, Heterorhabditis amazonensis IBCBn 24, and H. bacteriophora HB with ten chemical insecticides registered for managing D. suzukii pupae. In the first study, most insecticides at the recommended rate did not reduce the viability (% of living infective juveniles (IJs)) of S. braziliense and both Heterorhabditis species. The viability of S. carpocapsae was lowered by exposure to spinetoram, malathion, abamectin, azadirachtin, deltamethrin, lambda-cyhalothrin, malathion, and spinetoram after 48 h. During infectivity bioassays, phosmet was compatible with all the EPNs, causing minimal changes in infectivity (% pupal mortality) and efficiency relative to EPN-only controls, whereas lambda-cyhalothrin generally reduced infectivity of EPNs on D. suzukii pupae the most, with a 53, 75, 57, and 13% reduction in infectivity efficiency among H. bacteriophora, H. amazonensis, S. carpocapsae, and S. brazilense, respectively. The second study compared pupal mortality caused by the two most compatible nematode species and five insecticides in various combinations. Both Heterorhabditis species caused 78–79% mortality among D. suzukii pupae when used alone, and were tested in combination with spinetoram, malathion, azadirachtin, phosmet, or novaluron at a one-quarter rate. Notably, H. bacteriophora caused 79% mortality on D. suzukii pupae when used alone, and 89% mortality when combined with spinetoram, showing an additive effect. Novaluron drastically reduced the number of progeny IJs when combined with H. amazonensis by 270 IJs and H. bacteriophora by 218. Any adult flies that emerged from EPN–insecticide-treated pupae had a shorter lifespan than from untreated pupae. The combined use of Heterorhabditis and compatible chemical insecticides was promising, except for novaluron. Full article
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Control Efficacy of UAV-Based Ultra-Low-Volume Application of Pesticide in Chestnut Orchards
by Takumi Arakawa and Shinji Kamio
Plants 2023, 12(14), 2597; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12142597 - 9 Jul 2023
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Pesticide spraying using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has been utilized in many crops, including fruit tree crops, because of its merits in terms of labor-saving and the low risk to the operator. However, its relevance to chestnut, one of the commercially significant fruit [...] Read more.
Pesticide spraying using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has been utilized in many crops, including fruit tree crops, because of its merits in terms of labor-saving and the low risk to the operator. However, its relevance to chestnut, one of the commercially significant fruit trees grown throughout Europe and Asia, has not been studied. In this work, we assessed the effectiveness of UAV-based ultra-low-volume pesticide application in chestnuts. We demonstrated the efficiency of three insecticides applied by a UAV on young chestnut trees. Interestingly, using a reduced amount of one of the pesticides, UAV-based spraying had greater control efficacy than conventional methods. The efficacy of ultra-low-volume pesticide application to adult trees was equivalent to using an air-blast sprayer. The spray coverage was compared in terms of spray volume (20 L vs. 40 L ha−1), flight method (straight flight vs. rotating flight for each tree), the size of the UAVs (8 L vs. 30 L in payload capacity), flow rate (3.8 L vs. 6.0 L min−1), and tree age in order to characterize the droplet deposition of UAV-based spraying. Overall, we showed that spraying pesticides using a UAV could effectively protect chestnut trees. It was debated how tree training, or tree height, affected pest control. Full article
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Analyzing On-Farm Spatiotemporal Distribution of Halyomorpha halys (Stål) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) Populations from a Precision Agriculture Perspective
by Vasileios Liakos, Ioannis E. Navrozidis, Eleni I. Koutsogeorgiou, Nikoloz E. Gogolashvili, Eugenia Samourgkanidou, Ioannis Faraslis, Ioannis Gravalos, Thomas Thomidis and Stefanos S. Andreadis
Plants 2023, 12(12), 2282; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12122282 - 12 Jun 2023
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The brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys Stål (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae), is native to Japan, China, Taiwan, and Korea. Its dispersion from Asia to the United States of America and Europe caused serious damage to fruit, vegetables, and high-value crops. In Greece, damages are [...] Read more.
The brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys Stål (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae), is native to Japan, China, Taiwan, and Korea. Its dispersion from Asia to the United States of America and Europe caused serious damage to fruit, vegetables, and high-value crops. In Greece, damages are reported in kiwi orchards in the regions of Pieria and Imathia, which are the main production areas of kiwifruit. Greek kiwifruit production is expected to increase twofold within the next years. The aim of this research is to study the terrain and canopy properties that may have an impact on the development of H. halys populations. Thus, five kiwi orchards in total were selected in the regions of Pieria and Imathia. Τen traps were installed from early June to late October within each selected kiwi orchard–two types of traps at every side of the orchards and the center. The installed traps were examined weekly and the number of the captured H. halys was recorded. During the same days, sentinel satellite images were analyzed to calculate the vegetation index, NDVI (Normalised Difference Vegetation Index), and NDWI (Normalised Difference Water Index). The results showed population variability within the kiwi orchards since the population of H. halys was higher in areas with high NDVI and NDWI values. Additionally, our research revealed that H. halys prefers to develop populations at higher altitudes at both regional and field scales. The results of this research can be used to reduce damages by H. halys in kiwi orchards using different rates of pesticides depending on the prediction of the population size. There are multiple benefits of the proposed practice, such as a reduction in the production cost of kiwifruits, an increase in farmers’ profit, and environmental protection. Full article
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Identification and Comparative Expression Profiles of Candidate Olfactory Receptors in the Transcriptomes of the Important Egg Parasitoid Wasp Anastatus japonicus Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Eupelmidae)
by Hai-Xia Zhan, Lan Li, Feng-Qi Li and Lian-Sheng Zang
Plants 2023, 12(4), 915; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12040915 - 17 Feb 2023
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Anastatus japonicus Ashmead is an egg parasitoid wasp important for the biological control of fruit crop pests. The olfaction of parasitoids is crucial to searching for host pests in fruit crops. In this study, we sequenced and analyzed the antennal and abdominal transcriptomes [...] Read more.
Anastatus japonicus Ashmead is an egg parasitoid wasp important for the biological control of fruit crop pests. The olfaction of parasitoids is crucial to searching for host pests in fruit crops. In this study, we sequenced and analyzed the antennal and abdominal transcriptomes of A. japonicus to better understand the olfactory mechanisms in this species. A total of 201 putative olfactory receptor genes were identified, including 184 odorant receptors (ORs) and 17 ionotropic receptors (IRs). Then, we assayed the tissue-specific and sex-biased expression profiles of those genes based on the transcriptional levels. In total, 165 ORs and 15 IRs had upregulated expression in the antennae. The expression levels of 133 ORs, including odorant receptor co-receptor (AjapORco), and 10 IRs, including AjapIR8a, were significantly different between the female and male antennae. Our results provide valuable information for further studies on the molecular mechanisms of the olfactory system in A. japonicus. Full article
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